Since the most extreme cabinet in the history of the Zionist regime came to power, every day, we witness new dimensions and trends of resistance in that region, which are more prominent and different from the past in terms of \u201cquantity\u201d and \u201cquality.\u201d<\/p>\n
From a \u201cquantitative\u201d point of view, resistance groups have \u201cintensified operations\u201d in the West Bank in response to the crimes of the Zionist regime. From 2022 until now, it is considered the deadliest period recorded for the Zionists in the West Bank since the end of the second Palestinian Intifada in 2005.<\/p>\n
For example, in the first half of the current year, there were 167 shootings at Zionist targets in the West Bank. This is while there were 53 shootings in that area during the same period last year. The number of \u201cmartyrdom operations\u201d has increased so much that it reaches 15 cases in some days. No one is more aware of the real consequences of carrying out such a volume of daily operations than the Zionists themselves!<\/p>\n
From the \u201cqualitative\u201d point of view, we are witnessing the use of new operational methods and tactics by the resistance groups, which inflict the most losses and casualties on the Zionist regime with the least cost. For example, for the first time in recent weeks, the Palestinian Mujahideen have tried to use \u201cexplosive traps\u201d against the Zionist military and armored vehicles, which is somehow reminiscent of the operation to liberate South Lebanon. Explosive packages were used for the first time in the operation to liberate South Lebanon by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
This is in addition to firing rockets from different places, including the Jenin camp, resulting in several spy drones being shot down! Firing rockets from Jenin, which has been under severe economic and military siege for years, was an important development and contained \u201cvery important messages\u201d for the Zionist regime!<\/p>\n
Intensification of the operations of the Islamic Resistance groups definitely has \u201csignificant consequences\u201d for the Zionist regime and the Palestinian Resistance groups, some of the most important of which are as follows:<\/p>\n
One; perhaps the most important consequence of the current developments in the West Bank, which the intensification of Islamic Resistance operations has accompanied, is its dual function; in the sense that the aforementioned developments are an \u201cexistential threat\u201d for the Zionist regime, which has disrupted a major part of the \u201ccomputational system\u201d of the regime\u2019s military, security and political institutions, and according to the acknowledgments of the current and former heads of Israel\u2019s intelligence agency, the regime\u2019s structure has faced the danger of \u201ccollapse.\u201d On the other hand, for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance (PIR), it is a \u201chopeful\u201d and \u201cliberating\u201d point. Today, the West Bank is the biggest scene of \u201cshowing power,\u201d showing the strategic deterrence and cohesion of the Palestinian Resistance groups, unprecedented in the past 75 years.<\/p>\n
Two; consolidation of \u201cunity of the field\u201d is the next consequence of the recent developments in the West Bank. Unity of the field, at the same time, has accelerated and facilitated the process of advancing resistance strategies in the West Bank, intensifying the operations of united Palestinian groups, and the resulting achievements have strengthened and stabilized the idea of \u201cunity of the field\u201d in Palestine.<\/p>\n
Since 2022, when the conflict in the West Bank has intensified, Islamic Resistance groups from different factions started to cooperate and form a coalition under a single command. In this sense, the Islamic Resistance groups today are in a favorable situation regarding \u201cfield and operational unity.\u201d There is no news of the former factions that sometimes harmed the real cause of Palestine and the process of anti-Zionist struggles, and the differences have been put aside.<\/p>\n
Three; an increase in the level of \u201cvulnerability\u201d of the Zionist regime and its \u201cdecrease in deterrence power\u201d is the next consequence of recent developments. In the past two years, the deterrence power of the Zionist regime has found an inverse relationship with the process of field developments in the West Bank. Even the Zionists have realized that the more the situation on the ground in the West Bank becomes tense, the more vulnerable the regime will become; as Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel\u2019s military intelligence department (Aman), has acknowledged in a talk with the Zionist regime\u2019s channel 12.<\/p>\n
Four; due to the intensification of the operations of the Resistance groups in the West Bank, the Zionist regime is practically in a state of \u201cpassivity\u201d and \u201cdesperation\u201d and has lost its initiative and activism. It is interesting that the so-called \u201cOperation Breakwater\u201d, which the Zionist regime started in March 2023, to get rid of the current situation in the West Bank and conducts attacks on the West Bank almost daily, has had completely opposite results!<\/p>\n
Prospect<\/strong><\/p>\n The West Bank is currently the most \u201cactive\u201d and \u201cimportant\u201d front against the Zionist regime. The origin of every martyrdom operation in occupied territories is in the West Bank, especially in the cities of Jenin and Nablus.<\/p>\n Turning the West Bank into a center of resistance in occupied Palestine and \u201carming and equipping\u201d it is one of the important and strategic goals of the Islamic Resistance Front in Palestine and outside it, which has been achieved to a large extent today and is also approved and emphasized by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution raised this point of view for the first time on July 23, 2014.<\/p>\n Today, the West Bank has become a \u201cdecisive axis\u201d in Palestine and the region. This is not an analysis, but a reality based on the field, intelligence, security, political, etc. data, which determines the \u201cultimate fate\u201d of the battle between Palestine and the Zionist regime in the West Bank. This region, which is the \u201cstrategic depth\u201d of the Islamic Resistance Front in the confrontation with the Zionists, will play a key role in destroying the fake Israeli regime.<\/p>\n The presence and concentration of more than 70 percent of the military and security forces of the Zionist regime in the West Bank, which constitutes only 20 percent of the territory of occupied Palestine, is a testimony to the importance and vital role of this region in the future developments related to Palestine. This is why the Zionist regime seeks to control the situation in the West Bank through software and hardware methods, including cognitive warfare, settlement development, planning military operations, and attacks. This is despite the fact that, contrary to the targeted goals and efforts of the Zionists, the pulse of the developments in the West Bank is in the hands of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The West Bank has become the \u201cgravity center\u201d of the developments in occupied Palestine.
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